From 365fc8d56a6fdb5a43c71f1c53cc3a67567bf3a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthieu Moy Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 22:17:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] api-credentials.txt: mention credential.helper explicitly The name of the configuration variable was mentioned only at the very end of the explanation, in a place specific to a specific rule, hence it was not very clear what the specification was about. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt index fb6db22a46..9a17054b6a 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-credentials.txt @@ -179,8 +179,10 @@ credentials from and to long-term storage (where "long-term" is simply longer than a single git process; e.g., credentials may be stored in-memory for a few minutes, or indefinitely on disk). -Each helper is specified by a single string. The string is transformed -by git into a command to be executed using these rules: +Each helper is specified by a single string in the configuration +variable `credential.helper` (and others, see linkgit:../git-config[1]). +The string is transformed by git into a command to be executed using +these rules: 1. If the helper string begins with "!", it is considered a shell snippet, and everything after the "!" becomes the command. -- 2.11.4.GIT